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How Sunset Lake CBD is different
We built our farm on three core tenets:
Integrity – We’re farmers. We take pride in everything we grow and don’t cut any corners.
Affordability – We don’t use middlemen. We don’t think someone should upcharge you for our products.
Trust – Our CBD comes straight from our farm. We ship all of our handcrafted products (and their test results) directly to your door.
What's
in our CBD?
All of our CBD ships to you directly from our farm in Northern Vermont. Plus, we run soil tests, plant health tests, and product potency tests so you know exactly what you’re getting.
From our Satisfied Customers
Frequently Asked CBD Questions
We grow our hemp plants outside in living soil, as nature intended! Thanks to our diligent farm manager and the direction of UVM’s extension school, we also employ many sustainable farming techniques.
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) – Instead of using pesticides to protect our hemp plants from bugs that harm our crop, we use predatory bugs like Assassin bugs and Ladybugs to eliminate harmful pests. Essentially, we’re using good bugs to keep bad bug populations under control and keep our hemp crop 100% pesticide-free.
Cover Cropping & Rotation – To protect the health of our soil and the microbes inside, we cover crops between the rows in our hemp field. We generally use red clover between our rows to help keep the weeds under control. We also rotate our hemp crops onto different parts of our farm each year so our fields can regenerate.
Organic Fertilizer – We use organic fertilizer from our sister dairy farm to make our seedlings happy and healthy. It may not smell great on the day of spraying, but the plants love the nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium supplied by our cows.
We extract CBD from our hemp biomass and less aesthetically pleasing hemp flower using a cold ethanol bath. At lower temperatures, ethanol gently pulls CBD, other cannabinoids, and terpenes away from the plant material. We then evaporate the ethanol, leaving us with a molasses-like concentrate.
Once we have our concentrate, we winterize it, turning the CBDa into activated CBD. The final result is something called “crude” by people in the hemp and cannabis industry. Another term you may hear for this concentrate is “cured resin.”
We purchase our hemp genetics from two different suppliers.
- Oregon CBD Seeds – We find that Oregon produces some of the most consistent, resilient hemp genetics out there. Generally speaking, Oregon’s climate is similar to Northern Vermont’s, and we know what to expect regarding harvest schedules and yields.
- Colorado CBD Seeds – We’ve also purchased genetics from Colorado CBD Seeds. These plants mature a bit later than Oregon’s, allowing us to stagger our harvest. Plus, these folks developed one of our favorite strains: Cherry Abacus.
If you have a favorite CBD hemp flower cultivar and want us to try it, we’re all ears, but we can’t make any promises.
If you’re subject to workplace drug tests, please exercise caution using any of our full-spectrum CBD products. Full-spectrum CBD, by definition, contains trace amounts of THC, which can show up on your workplace screening.
If you’re looking for Sunset Lake CBD products that contain no THC at all, please filter our products using the THC-Free tag.
Due to a licensing issue in 2023, we could not grow any hemp flower last year. We’ve figured out our USDA license and plan to release five cultivars this coming year.
Thanks so much for your patience and we look forward to being your one-stop-shop for all things hemp and CBD very soon!